A ‘Geopolitical Commission’: Supranationalism Meets Global Power Competition
本文研究欧盟委员会主席冯德莱恩自2019年推动的‘地缘政治委员会’概念的起源与运作，结合新现实主义、新功能主义和地缘经济学解释其如何应对外部权力竞争与内部机构博弈，对理解欧盟战略自主有帮助。
Abstract This article examines the origins and operationalisation of the concept of a ‘geopolitical Commission’, which has been promoted by President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen since 2019. This concept has been used to guide the stronger co‐ordination of the external aspects of the Commission's work. It is also symptomatic of the growing role of strategic considerations in the Commission's recent initiatives, particularly through the objective of strengthening the EU's ‘open strategic autonomy’. To explain this phenomenon, I combine three different theoretical perspectives: neorealism, neofunctionalism, and geoeconomics. I conclude that the geopolitical Commission should be understood as the result of the interactions between exogenous factors – the intensification of global power competition and the rise of geoeconomic strategies – and endogenous factors, such as the rivalry between the Commission and the European External Action Service and the functional link between the Commission's economic powers and international security issues.